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>> she wants you to open a restaurant for her. >> keep cooking like this. it's really delicious. >> it has three distinctive culinary heritages. those who hail from villages that were either depopulated or destroyed in 1948. and they constitute about 75% of the population. and they kind of bring with them their own distinct cuisine. that's very different from the cuisine of the city, gaza city, which tends to use much more heat, different from the coast, which uses seafood, which is sophisticated and urbane. >> in your lifetime, i guess the question will be, in your lifetime, will you be able ...

>> just because i was raised outside the faith with no particular attachment or loyalty to israel doesn't mean that plenty of people on this earth don't hate me in principle. i know that. but the state of israel, i never really knew what to think. first look around, it's like everybody says. it's pretty. it's awesome. it's urban, sophisticated, it. like southern california, only nicer. then you see the young draftees in the streets and you start to get the idea. this is jerusalem. >> i'm taking you through damascus gate, which is one of the gates of the old city. these walls are pretty ancient...

My treachery is complete. >> just because i was raised outside the faith with no particular attachment or loyalty to israel doesn't mean that plenty of people on this earth don't hate me in principle. i know that. but the state of israel, i never really knew what to think. first look around, it's like everybody says. it's pretty. it's awesome. it's urban, sophisticated, it. like southern california, only nicer. then you see the young draftees in the streets and you start to get the idea. this is jerusalem. >> i'm taking you through damascus gate, which is one of the gates of the old city. thes...

A minute or two that some kind of peace, some kind of reconciliation, meeting of the minds, sanity, is possible after you visit moshda. it's a restaurant in what looks like an idyllic village in the hills about 20 minutes from jerusalem. it feels like an alternate universe for a number of reasons. >> she is jewish. and yakub is muslim. they're partners, co-owners, and also married. they're unsurprisingly friends of yota. together, they grow and raise much of what's used in their kitchen. their food reflects both their different backgrounds and their commonalities. >> we're going to spoil you n...

Them off the streets for obvious reasons. but the track here, such as it is, has its drawbacks. it's basically a parking lot across from the detention center. what do thaw think about this next door. do they ever give you problems? >> this is an israeli jail. one time we were here with speed sisters and there were problems because of the prisoners. so i just stopped my car over there, and i was walking, i wanted to see what was going on, and the israeli soldiers, they came running at me and started i got shot in the back. it was tear gas. >> the canister hit you? >> yeah, so my speed sisters t...